During a tour of remote Indigenous communities in South Australia, special envoy Tony Abbott expresses tentative support for a plan to get police officers into schools to reduce truancy rates and improve engagement.

Tensions are high among South Australian Indigenous communities regarding the timing of an expected visit from special envoy for Indigenous Affairs Tony Abbott in the wake of a recent alleged murder in Ceduna, the ABC understands.

A film about prisoners training ex-racing greyhounds may be last year's news at the Adelaide Film Festival, but the program itself continues to grow and 170 dogs have now been trained and found new homes.

Despite increases in almond and cotton plantings in the southern Murray-Darling Basin, commodity forecaster ABARES reports water market prices would be no higher than the peaks of the millennium drought.

South Australia's ice scourge takes centre stage in the state election campaign, with SA Best demanding mandatory rehabilitation and detox facilities that could see crystal methamphetamine users locked up.

South Australian police were looking for Travis Kirchner, but instead of finding him they uncovered a level of drug use and squalid conditions among Murray Bridge residents that would "revolt" most Australians.